Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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Breaking News Angela Merkel Scraps Cabinet Meeting With Israel Over Settlements
BERLIN (JTA) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has canceled a planned top-level joint Cabinet meeting with Israeli leaders, reportedly out of frustration over Israel’s controversial new settlements law. The binational consultation was set for May 10 in Jerusalem. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that Merkel’s office offered the September national elections in Germany as the reason for the cancellation, but the chancellor appears…
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Breaking News German Jews Welcome Election of Steinmeier as Ceremonial President
BERLIN (JTA) – The Central Council of Jews in Germany welcomed the election of Frank-Walter Steinmeier as Germany’s next president, calling him among the “most upright and staunch advocates of our democratic values and our constitution,” as well as a strong supporter of Israel. Steinmeier, a member of the Social Democratic Party who stepped down from his position…
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Breaking News German Textbook Publisher Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Illustration
BERLIN (JTA) — A schoolbook publisher has apologized for using an anti-Semitic illustration in a text about the euro crisis. The book will not be removed from German schools’ bookshelves, however. Based in Berlin, the Klett-Verlag publisher told Vice magazine blogger Philipp Frohn that the “regrettable mistake” would be corrected in a future edition, which will not come…
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Fast Forward German Extremists Busted for Plot To Attack Jews and Refugees
BERLIN (JTA) — Police have raided the homes of right-wing extremists across Germany on suspicion of planning attacks on Jews, refugees and police. Police searched 12 apartments and other sites across the country early on Wednesday, gathering information for an investigation. Seven suspects come from the states of Baden-Württemberg and Baden. Some 200 police officers from the states of…
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Breaking News Germans Honored for Preserving Local Jewish History
BERLIN(JTA) – Non-Jewish Germans who have helped preserve local Jewish history, and interested young Germans in it, were honored at the 17th annual Obermayer German Jewish History Awards. Rolf Wieland, president of the Berlin House of Representatives, presented the awards – established by the late American philanthropist Arthur Obermayer – on Monday in the Berlin Senate. Virtually all awardees said they face…
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Breaking News Holocaust Denying Far-Right Party No Threat to German Democracy: Court
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany’s highest court has found no legal grounds to ban the far-right extremist National Democratic Party of Germany. The long-awaited decision announced Tuesday was met with disappointment from Jewish leaders in Germany and abroad. It marks the second time that the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has considered barring the NPD, which is anti-foreigner, anti-EU,…
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Breaking News German Far Right Wing Uses Image of Iconic World War II Resistance Fighter
BERLIN (JTA) — A club supporting Germany’s right-wing populist “Alternative for Deutschland” party has raised hackles by using a World War II resistance heroine to pump up support, suggesting that Germany’s current leaders have something in common with the Nazis. “Sophie Scholl would vote for AfD” reads the advertisement posted last weekend on Facebook by a local division of AfD near…
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Breaking News Synagogue Arson Not Anti-Semitic — or So Rules German Court
BERLIN (JTA) — A new court ruling on an old case, which calls the arson of a synagogue an expression of anti-Israel protest, has brought Germany’s legal approach to anti-Semitism under renewed scrutiny. The head of the European Jewish Congress reacted with dismay to news that a German high court recently found no procedural errors in the 2015 and…
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